Astroblog: LCROSS will go BANG on the Moon this Friday

Thursday, October 08, 2009

LCROSS will go BANG on the Moon this Friday

But we in Australia (New Zealand, South-East Asia) won't see it. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite will crash into crater Cabeus this Friday at 11:30 UT, that's 22:30 AEDST, 22:00 ACDST and 20:30 AWDST. Unfortunately from our point of view the Moon doesn't rise until after 11:00 pm (23:00 AEDST). NASA's viewing guide is here. NASA TV will cover the impact starting at 10:15 UT, that's 21:15 AEDST, 20:45 ACDST and 19:15 AWDST. Be prepared for the intertubes to be jammed though.

Labels: impact, Moon

# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 7:16 am

Comments:

I'm in the northern hemisphere. Better viewing for Friday's event. Sorry you won't see it.

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:52 am

I love J-hud I believe her child is so cute with his hair she is happy as I can see go J Hud when can we do a duet together????

# posted by

Chris Brown : 8:13 am

Science is almost scary sometimes.

# posted by

Chrystal K. : 9:12 am

How dissapointing, the media really hyped it up, well suppose that is their job.
Maybe I will wait till the Lunarian tactical response. Might see something then.

# posted by

Ian Whistler : 9:20 pm

gidday Ian,
not a big bang but it did look a little hot. see this image from the NASA-TV feed,
(http://cometal.bigblog.com.au/index.do)
if you blinked you might have missed it, kind regards, CometAl

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:15 pm

I really hope that there are no bad effects from bombing the moon. It just seems insane.

# posted by

Amy : 4:34 am